South American Coccinellidae (Coleoptera), Part XVII: systematic revision of Western Hemisphere Cephaloscymnini (Coccinellinae) with description of a cryptic new genus and species of Coccidulini (Coccinellinae)
Author
Gordon, Robert D.
Author
Hanley, Guy A.
text
Insecta Mundi
2017
2017-12-29
2017
601
1
158
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5170031
1942-1354
5170031
A5348E25-CC3E-476B-9AD2-0A6C3A37A61A
15.
Neaporia jenny
Gordon and Hanley
,
new species
Description. Male
holotype
. Length
1.6 mm
, width
1.2 mm
; body elongate oval, elytron with side weakly rounded, wider than pronotal base, widest anterior to middle of elytra. Dorsal surface entirely shiny, lacking microsculpture. Color brown (
Fig. 129
); head dark brown; pronotum with lateral 1/3 yellowish brown, not seen in image; mouthparts yellow except extreme apex of apical maxillary palpomere dark brown; antenna, mouthparts, legs yellow; apical 2 abdominal ventrites yellowish brown. Head punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; pronotal punctures about as large as on head, separated by less than a diameter; elytral punctures larger than on pronotum, separated by a diameter or less; prosternal, mesosternal punctures large, separated by less than a diameter; metasternum with large punctures along anterior and lateral borders, punctures on remaining surface small, sparse; punctures on abdominal ventrites 1–2 large, separated by 1 to 3 times a diameter, punctures on remaining ventrites small, separated by about a diameter. Head densely pubescent with frons slightly narrower than an eye measured at vertex (
Fig. 130
); eye canthus short; apical maxillary palpomere long, narrowed to apex in apical 1/3. Pronotum widest at middle, reflexed lateral margin wide, equal in width from base to apex. Epipleuron flat, wide in basal ½, as wide as pronotal hypomeron. Prosternum slightly wider than long, as long as mesosternum, with apical margin truncate, male anterolateral projection large, prominent, distinctly setose. Postcoxal line on ventrite 1 short, evenly rounded, extended slightly more than ½ distance to apical margin of ventrite. Apex of ventrite 5 widely emarginate medially. Genitalia with basal lobe slightly shorter than paramere, slender, slightly narrowed from base to blunt, emarginate apex (not visible in image); paramere wide, narrowed from base to narrowly rounded apex in lateral view, dorsal margin with blunt serrations medially (
Fig. 131, 132
); sipho slender, narrowed to acute apex in apical 1/6 (
Fig. 133
).
Female.
Similar to male except head not densely pubescent, body entirely dark brown, nearly black, spermathecal capsule short, basal and apical portions large, brown, short middle section slender, pale, apex of cornu broadly rounded.
Variation
. None observed.
Type material.
Holotype
male;
VENEZUELA
:
Tray
6, FOG 16.11.
v.1990
,
Gallery forest
,
Cassia grandis, J.G. Davis, N.
Venezuela
:
Estado
Aragua
,
P. Nac. Henri Pittier
,
Campo. Experimntl
CENIAP,
Pozo del Diablo
,
400m
.
459. (
BMNH
)
.
Paratype
; 1, same data as holotype except Tray 14, Bristol Univ. Exped. Brit. Mus. Nac. Hist. 1992–6 (
BMNH
)
.
Remarks.
Neaporia jenny
is difficult to distinguish from other brown to black species of
Neaporia
. Male genitalia are diagnostic and must be used for identification.